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Supervisors: Prof. M Barnes, Prof. A C Smith. Application Deadline: Applications accepted all year round. Details Next generation power networks in ships, aircraft, many renewable generation systems, and even some distribution networks will use DC instead of AC. Breaking DC is however problematic and no well proven solution exists. This...

Supervisors: Dr T Chen, Prof. S Rowland, Dr Iain Dupere. Application Deadline: Applications accepted all year round. Details The rapid increase of voltage level and desire for compaction in modern overhead transmission lines has resulted in serious environmental impacts such as acoustic and electrical noise. These factors are affected by...

Supervisors: Prof. C Wong, Prof. R Kingston. Application Deadline: Applications accepted all year round. Details The research aims to identify the gaps and bottlenecks between existing planning policy regimes across the UK and the needs and demands of power network operation and planning. There are three main research components to address...

Supervisors: Dr J Broderick ,  Dr P Gilbert. Application Deadline: Applications accepted all year round. Details Aviation and shipping are currently lagging behind other transport sectors in efforts to decarbonise, with both expected grow further and substantial technical and political barriers to their decarbonisation (see Bows et al...

Supervisors: Prof. P Crossley. Application Deadline: Applications accepted all year round. Details Project starts with investigation into how a superimposed directional agent could be used to measure the direction to a short-circuit fault on an electrical power network and the amplitude of the “power” change created by the fault....

Supervisors: Dr C McLachlan, Dr J Mutale. Application Deadline: Applications accepted all year round. Details The development of more ‘local’ energy systems is a common goal in various UK, regional, and local policy documents. More localised energy system design, planning, and management is thought to offer various localised...

Supervisors: Dr J Carrasco, Dr O Marjanovic. Application Deadline: Applications accepted all year round. Details The current state-of-the-art controllers of HVDC are designed using linear techniques and their stability only holds for an arbitrarily small operation range. However, the HVDC control system is intrinsically nonlinear as the...

Coventry University has been voted ‘Modern University of the Year’ three times running by The Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide. Ranked in the UK’s top 15 (Guardian University Guide), we have a global reputation for high quality teaching and research with impact. Almost two-thirds (61%) of our research was judged ‘world...

Location:  University Park Heavy oil, shale oil and bitumen deposits will provide energy security for the World, while conventional fuels are still needed. However, current extraction technology has a larger surface footprint and greater environmental impact than desired. These oils are also of lower grade than conventional resources. This...

Project title:   Novel physical and numerical methods for simulating water and heat transfer in land surface models Department/School: Geography/School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science Supervisors:   Professor Anne Verhoef (Department of Geography, University of Reading), Professor Mike Baines (Department of...